-- [ From: Kathryn P. Rosenthal * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --


Hi, you wrote:

> Extra salt was not available to paleo man (apart from those living at
> seashores) so salted (cured) bacon is not paleo, but fresh (not salted
)
> side pork is, according to my opinion.

In addition to salt being available for those living at seashores, I'd
include those living within several days walking distance of "salt flats
."

I vaguely remembered reading about "salt flats" in grade school or high
school.  Last winter when I drove from Carlsbad Caverns, in New Mexico,
South to Texas and through the Guadalupe Pass, I found myself in a
strange landscape:  a huge, white salt basin stretching for many miles.
What had once been a sea, had become part of the Chihuahuan dessert and
"salt flats" have remained to this day.  The Mescalero Apaches traveled
great distances to collect the salt from the flats.

I have no idea how many early "inland" peoples had access to salt and
cannot furnish references, but I believe there was some inland
availability of salt, at least in the southwest.

Kath (freezing in Mich.)